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Falcon sound impersonator.

  • 03-01-2013 4:50pm
    #1
    Hidalgo
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    Does anyone know if its possible to buy a falcon sound impersonator.

    The problem is a load (and I mean a load) of starlings on the rafters and beams of the slatted house, they're not nesting but spending a lot of time, especially at night.

    The net result is lots of birds*it on silage left in the middle channel (silage is pit silage left in by grab).

    Any suggestions???


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  • #2
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Hidalgo wrote: »
    Does anyone know if its possible to buy a falcon sound impersonator.

    The problem is a load (and I mean a load) of starlings on the rafters and beams of the slatted house, they're not nesting but spending a lot of time, especially at night.

    The net result is lots of birds*it on silage left in the middle channel (silage is pit silage left in by grab).

    Any suggestions???
    Falcon sound probably won't work
    I do see lads with fake kestrels on a string hovering in the wind
    That'd work


  • #3
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    We have one of these

    http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Electronic-Bird-Scarer-/180701902315?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Garden_Plants_Weed_Pest_Control_CV&hash=item2a12ac35eb


    Works for crows, starlings, swallows and pigeons


  • #4
    bbam
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    Hey rellig.
    How successful do you find this?

    Just this winter for some reason our crows have stepped up their presence. For the first year they are a nusience.

    I've been thinking of something similar myself.


  • #5
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    bbam wrote: »
    Hey rellig.
    How successful do you find this?

    Just this winter for some reason our crows have stepped up their presence. For the first year they are a nusience.

    I've been thinking of something similar myself.

    Bought it last spring and it kept the starlings and swallows from nesting in all of the sheds within 50m square of its location. It proved its worth again last week - I'm feeding straw along with silage and the crows were having a field day picking through it. They were landing on the wrapped bales and putting holes in the tops of them with their feet. I set it up in the slatted shed and it goes off every hour. I haven't seen a crow since. Paid about €70 for it in the local co-op. Got a lecture on here about how I was destroying generations of bird nesting by using it. The sheds and around the house are certainly a lot cleaner since I started using it and I'll continue to use it next breeding season too!!


  • #6
    bbam
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    Thanks.
    Along with problems in the slatted shed they are hanging round in the machinery shed now and crapping on everything.
    Damn annoying !


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  • #7
    Muckit
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    bbam wrote: »
    Thanks.
    Along with problems in the slatted shed they are hanging round in the machinery shed now and crapping on everything.
    Damn annoying !

    And they'd get in the eye of a needle! Even sheds we have with doors they've managed to squeeze in between top of door and eaves


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